Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

We live in a bewildering world.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

The countries of the Middle East have been losers in the age of globalization, out of step in an age of free markets, free trade, and democratic politics.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

The few who understand the system [of banking with capitalism] will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests

For most of history, the prime source of human insecurity was nature. Capitalist societies have been oriented toward innovation and dynamism, to the creation of new knowledge, new products, and new modes of production and distribution. All this has shifted the locus of insecurity from nature to the economy.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Some things were beyond understanding.

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.